During Carnival de Barranquilla, there were many Colombian street entrepreneurs. Check out the guy on the left who offers a cell phone service “llamadas” to those who don’t have a phone. The pizza man has a homemade pizza oven rigged on a bike made with old parts.
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This photo reminds me of Sri Lanka a lot :). Great memories, indeed. The streets were soooo busy and hectic!
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I haven’t been here yet, but would love to go!
Nice picture. We’ve noticed a lot of clever entrepreneurs in Indonesia too; they’d beat the UK Apprentice contestants hands-down in a business battle I think!
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LOL Thank you! The street entrepreneurs are clever. It’s all about doing more with less.
Colomnbians are very entrepreneurial and its very uncommon to see them begging.
The llamadas or minutos are they are more commonly known are common all all cities of Colombia. Colombians never have credit on their phones so its very practical to make a quick call for 200 peso or whatever. Other entrepreneurial pursuits at traffic lights include selling dvds, books, candies, avocados, flowers, mobile phone covers and all sorts of street performances.
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